Jacques Offenbach

France, 1839–1880

German-born French composer (1819-1880) who invented operetta. His Paris theatre turned satire, catchy tunes and the galop infernale of Orpheus in the Underworld into a form that spread across Europe and became an ancestor of the musical.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Jacques Offenbach and 2 artists Jacques Offenbach influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Jacques Offenbach influence?

• Jerome Kern — Kern was the link between European operetta and the Broadway musical, adapting to American idiom and pace the form Offenbach invented in Paris.
• Gilbert and Sullivan — The form they worked in. Offenbach's opera bouffe is what the Savoy operas are an English answer to — the same absurdity, held back from his extravagance.